VVV-Venlo vs Almere City Live Stream, Predictions

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VVV-Venlo

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VVV-Venlo fans will want a repeat of their previous result, being the 2-3 Eerste Divisie victory against Jong Utrecht.

In that game, VVV-Venlo managed 53% possession and 14 shots at goal with 7 of them on target. For VVV-Venlo, the goals were scored by Nick Venema (19'), Mitchell van Rooijen (33') and Sven Braken (62'). Jong Utrecht got 22 attempts at goal with 8 on target. Mees Rijks (23') and Mohamed Mallahi (51') scored for Jong Utrecht.

VVV-Venlo have been finding it hard to keep clean sheets of late, although they have also found ways to convert their own chances into goals. Looking at their last 6 games, VVV-Venlo have conceded in 6 of them while also getting on the scoresheet in 5 of those matches. We will have to find out if that trend can be sustained into this next match.

Almere City

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Since being beaten in their last game against Jong AZ in Eerste Divisie action, Almere City and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

In that game, Almere City managed 51% possession and 13 shots at goal with 3 on target. At the other end, Jong AZ had 16 attempts on goal with 8 on target. Mexx Meerdink (68') and Mohamed Taabouni (77', 87') scored for Jong AZ.

In a total of 5 out of the previous 6 games featuring Almere City, a minimum of three goals have been hit. The average goals scored per match within that spell is 3.17, with the average number of goals for Almere City being 1.33.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking over past results between these clubs going back to 15/01/2016 tells us that these encounters have been pretty painful for Almere City. They’ve not been able to register any victories whatsoever whereas VVV-Venlo have dominated them, running out winners in 100 per cent of those games where they have faced each other.

A combined sum of 20 goals were shared by the two clubs in these games, with 16 of them from Venlose trots and 4 created by De Zwarte Schapen. That’s an average goals per game of 3.33.

The last league match featuring these sides was Eerste Divisie match day 28 on 25/02/2022 when it ended Almere City 0-1 VVV-Venlo.

In that game, Almere City managed 64% possession and 16 shots at goal with 6 on target. Their only player to score was Danny Post (23' Own goal).

For their opponents, VVV-Venlo got 6 attempts on goal with 2 on target.

The match was refereed by Marc Nagtegaal.

📰 Team News: VVV-Venlo

There is just a single fitness concern for the VVV-Venlo boss Rick Kruys to contend with thanks to an otherwise robust group of players. Tristan Dekker (Fibula Fracture) is out of contention.

📋 Team News: Almere City

With a fully injury-free squad available for selection, the Almere City manager Alex Pastoor does not have any fitness worries to report coming into this match.

🧠 Prediction

We feel that Almere City will most probably create a decent amount of chances and shots on target.

However, VVV-Venlo might well find it a difficult task to break down their defence but we do think that it’s more than likely that they will be hitting back at some stage here.

We can therefore see a comfortable 1-3 winning margin for Almere City at the end of the match.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Andre Moura, 23:41 31/07/2022